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Why Are You Still Worried About the MMR Vaccine?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / September 25, 2018 / aluminum, Andrew Wakefield, autism, autism shot, autism studies, delaying vaccines, false balance, fraud, Jenny McCarthy, journalism jail, media, Oprah, scared, Sharyl Atkisson, thimerosal, tweets, Vaccine Misinformation, vaccine scare stories, Wakefield factor

Are you still worried about the MMR vaccine? Worried enough to skip or delay it and leave your kids at risk of a life-threatening disease?

Anti-Vaccine Censorship on Facebook

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / June 27, 2018 / ban, both sides, censorship, cherry picky, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, debate, echo chamber, Facebook, Facebook groups, false balance, on the fence, propaganda, talking about vaccines, vaccine myths

Anti-vaccine groups delete comments they don’t like and ban people to create echo chambers of like minded folks.

Has the Vaccine Court Compensated over 70 Families for Autism?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / May 23, 2018 / Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis, ADEM, autism, Autism Omnibus Proceedings, autism studies, Bailey Banks, encephalitis, false balance, Hannah Poling, Mary Holland, Pace Environmental Law Review, propaganda, table injury, vaccine choice, vaccine court, Vaccine Misinformation, VICP

Has the Vaccine Court been compensating families of children with autism, including children with encephalitis that turned into autism?

Recommendations for Reporting About Vaccines

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / February 14, 2018 / Andrew Wakefield, anecdotes, anti-vaccine movement, Bob Sears, celebrities, cherry picking, DPT, false balance, health journalists, history of the anti-vaccine movement, media, myths, propaganda, questions about vaccines, reporters, talking about vaccines, Vaccine Education

Reporters should understand that the way they cover vaccines and vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks can influence the behavior of people, either helping them understand that vaccines are safe and necessary, putting them on-the-fence about vaccines, or scarring them away from getting vaccinated and protected.

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Why Are You Still Worried About the MMR Vaccine?

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